Mediterranean fluvial environments have responded sensitively to past changes in climate, physiographic conditions and human activity. Chronosequences of river terraces and alluvial deposits were established using morphologic, sedimentological and pedologic criteria, Cand Pb-dating techniques, historical data and pottery fragments. The objective of this study addresses the fluvial dynamic of se...

The aim of the New Zealand Southern ALPs EXperiment (SALPEX) was to study chiefly, but not exclusively, how the Southern Alps promote precipitation on the upwind side of the mountain chain in pre-frontal northwesterly airstreams. The third and most extensive field phase of the experiment ran for three weeks during October 1996, and documented two events in considerable detail. The present paper...

in order to achieve high quality seeds, producers must be able to estimate the accurate harvest maturity time seeds. the objective of this study was to investigate changes in seed quality during seed development and maturation in the two cultivars native of the sari and gorgan and two cultivars modified of the darab14 and yellowhite. a field experiment was conducted in during 2009 at gorgan uni...

Pada Proyek DDT (Double-Double Track) daerah Bekasi mengalami permasalahan yaitu terdapat genangan air pada lapisan subbalas eksisting yang akan digunakan sebagai jalur track baru. Bila terjadi hujan dengan intensitas curah tinggi, maka kembali menggenang subbalas. Penyebab utama dari masalah tersebut adalah tidak berfungsinya saluran sistem drainase, karena posisi drainase lebih tinggi daripad...

This study was held in Fadhlia region, 22 km northeast of Mosul city, province center, and aims at knowing the effect olive trees soil optical properties, three sites orchards were chosen with different ages agricultural processes, age first site is 200 years old, second 10 old third 25 pedons drilled under trees, others uncultivated land, several photographs for taken using a digital camera to...

The spatial characteristics of land cover are useful for understanding the various impacts of human activity on the overall ecological conditions of the urban environment. The multi-temporal Landsat images (TM) between the years of 1990 and 2003 were used together with the Geographic Information System (GIS) techniques to evaluate the environmental changes in the area around Gabal El Hamza and ...

we investigate the temperature-dependences of the Brillouin frequency shift in three different kind of single-mode fibers using a heterodyne method for sensing temperature. Positive dependences coefficients of 0.77, 0.56 and 1.45MHz/0C are demonstrated for 25 km long single-mode fiber, 10 km long non-zero dispersion shifted fiber and 100 m photonic crystal fiber, respectively. The results indic...

Background: Intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) in preterm neonates is a serious problem in neonatal intensive care units (NICU) worldwide. IVH is reported in approximately 60-70% of very-low-birth-weight (VLBW) neonates. The present study aimed to assess the association of IVH with neonatal characteristics and serum markers, such as serum Interleukin-6 (IL-6) level, in preterm neonates in an aca...